The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-25
ITS THINE HEART RIGHTr
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

DE-. Tnimnge MAKES spiritual DinBnosiss
Our Nature An Atwist and Askew and
Upjolntsd-The More We Think About
Heavenly Things the Better.
BROOKLYN, Dec 4-This is sacTamental
day in Brooklyn tabernacle The more than
5000 communicate members and many
strangers from all parts Of the world make it
Q memorable scene New members were re-
ceived and some Of them were baptized this
morning.
The congregation, led by organ and cornet,
sang:
Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power
TIL al the ransomed church OF God
Be saved to sin no more
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, d. D.,
che Chariot, n and his text II Kings K, 15: els
thine heart rightF'
With mettled horses at full speed, for he
was celebrated for fast driving, Jehu, the
warrior and king, returns from battle But
seeing Jehonadab, an acquaintance, by the
waysids, he shouts "Whoai whoan to the
lathsred span Then, leaning over to Jehon-
adab, Jehn salutes him in the words Of the
tsxt-words not more appropriate for that
hour and that place than for this hour and
place
d thine heart right should like to hear
cf your physical health. Well myself, like
% have everybody else well; and so might
iask: Is your eyesight right, your hearing
right, your nerves right, your lungs right,
Jour entire body rightl But l am busy to-
day taking diagnosis of the more important
spiritual conditions
should like to hear of your financial well
fare. Iwant everybody to have plenty Of
money, ample apparel, large storehouse, and
comfortable residence And / might ask: Is
your business right, your income right, your
worldly surroundings rights But what are
these financial questions compared with the
Inquiry as to whether you have been able to
payyow debts to God; as to whether you
are running yourself by the long credit sys-
tenn Of the soull / have known men to have
no more than one loaf of bread at a time, and
yet to own q government bond of heaven
worth more than the whole material uni
verse.
The question ask you today is not in re-
gard to your habits. make no inquiry
about your integrity, or your chastity, or
your sobriety. do not mean to stand on
the outside of the gate and ring the bell; but
coming up the steps open the door and
come t. the private apartment of the soul;
and with the earnestness of a man that must
give an account for this days work, I cry
out, o man, o woman immortal: Is thine
heart right
Twill not insult you by an argument to
prove that we are by nature all wrong. II
there be factory explosion and the smoke
stack be upset, and the wheels be broken in
two, and the engine unjointed, and the pom
dercus bars be twisted, and a man should
look In and say that nothing was the matter,
You would pronounce him fool Well, il
needs no acumen to discover that our nature
II all atwist and askew and unjointed. The
thing doesn't work right. The biggest trouble
we have in the world is with our souls.
Men sometimes say that though their lives
may not be just right, their heart is all right.
ImpoosibleI A farmer never puts the poorest
apples on top Of his barrel; nor does the mer-
chant place the meanest goods in his show
window. The best part Of us is our outward
life I do not stop to discuss whether we all
fell In Adam, for we have been our
own Adam, and have all eaten of the for
hidden fruit, and have been turned out of the
paradise Of holiness and peace: and though
the flaming sword that stood at the gate to
keep us out has changed position and comes
behind to drive us in, we will not go.
The Bible account of us is not exaggerated
when it says that we are poor and wretched
and miserable and blind and naked. Poor:
the wretch that stands shivering on our door
step on q cold day is not so much in need of
bread as we are Of spiritual help. Blind:
why, the man whose eyes persisted in the
powder blast, and who for these ten years
has gone feeling his way from street to street,
Is not in such utter darkness as we. Naked:
why, there is not one rag of holiness left to
hide the shame Of our sin. Sick: why, the
leprosy has eaten into the head and the heart
and the hands and the feet, and the maras-
mus Of an everlasting wasting away has al
ready seized on some of us.
But the meanest thing for man to do is to
discourse about an evil without pointing a
way to have it remedied. ! speak of the
thirst of your hot tongue only that I may
show you the living stream that drops crys-
talline and sparkling from the Rock of Ages,
and pours q river Of gladness at your feet. II
Ishow you the rents In your coat, it is only
because; the door of Gods wardrobe now
swings open, and here is robe, white with
the feece of the Lamb of God, and of cut
and make that an angel would not be asham-
Cd to wear. II snatch from you the black,
moldy bread that you are munching, it Is
only to give you the bread made out Of the
finest wheat that grows on the celestial hills
and baked in the fires Of the cross, and one
crumb Of which would be enough TO make al
heaven q banquet Hear it, one and all, and
tell Il TO your friends when you go home, that
the Lord Jesus Christ can make the hear
right.
First we need repenting heart. II for the
last ten, twenty or forty years Of life we have
been going on in the wrong way, it is tims
that we turned around and started in thu
opposite direction. II we offend our Friends
We are glad to apologize. God is our bes
friend, and yet how many Of us have nevei
apologized for the wrongs we have done him
There u nothing that we so much need Il
get rid Of as sin. IL Is a horrible blacl
monster. Il polluted Eden. 1t killed Christ
u has blasted the world. Men keep dogs q
kennels, and rabbits in a warren, and cattl
In Q pen What man that would be VIII
would shut them up in his parlor But thi
foul dog Of sin, and these herds of transgres
sion, we have entertained for many lonl
year In our heart, which should be the clean
est, BRIGHTEST room in all our nature Gu
with the vile herd Begone, ye befouIers o
an immortal naturei Turn out the beast
and let Christ come lnl
A heather came to an early Christian VIII
had the reputation Of curing diseases Th